{"id":14524,"date":"2015-04-13T16:19:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T21:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=14524"},"modified":"2015-04-13T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T21:19:40","slug":"humans-of-imsa-xinyu-guan-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2015\/04\/13\/humans-of-imsa-xinyu-guan-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of IMSA: Xinyu Guan (&#8217;17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did you want to come\u00a0to IMSA?<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;IMSA was like this mythical place where people become very independent and study extreme math and science to degrees not possible in regular high schools. Also, all the IMSA students I knew were very smart and admirable&#8211;and I wanted to be like one of them, so\u00a0I decided to give a shot and applied.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Was IMSA like what you expected?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;No, I&#8217;d say IMSA was a lot more laid back than I thought. Before I came I thought I would be preoccupied by studies and would never have free time, but really the classes aren&#8217;t that hard if you manage your time well. Sometimes I even found myself with nothing to do, as I&#8217;ve heard several\u00a0seniors\u00a0say &#8220;the IMSA campus is so boring!&#8221; However, maybe that&#8217;s what IMSA is all about&#8211;finding your own path and pursuing your own inquiries\u00a0(IMSA even sets aside an I-day for that purpose); if you don&#8217;t do so, of course your time here will be boring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One thing that did match up with my expectation was the\u00a0sleep deprivation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>What is your favorite memory of IMSA?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Definitely it would be working and preparing for PowerPitch.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did you want to come\u00a0to IMSA? &#8220;IMSA was like this mythical place where people become very independent and study extreme math and science to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-14524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imsanews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14524"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14575,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524\/revisions\/14575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14524"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}